In the wilderness, the steam train headed lonely towards the Central Plains.

Before leaving, P5092 asked him again: "You are already the young marshal of the Northwest Army, and in time, the entire Northwest will be in your hands, and all the power will be yours." With this kind of identity that others can't ask for, but he wants to risk his life to go to the Central Plains to save Luo Lan, is it worth it?"

Ren Xiaosu asked rhetorically: "That Tinder fought with the expeditionary legion, but in the end it was taken advantage of by the Wang family, is the Tinder worth it?"

This sentence made P5092 ask rarely, and the other party laughed dumbly: "Young marshal, the fire is for faith, please don't change the concept." ”

Over the years, Tinder has taken some detours, and has also encountered some wrong leaders who have tried to turn Tinder into a real war machine.

However, even such a wrong leader, when faced with a foreign enemy, chooses to face the expeditionary legion with all his might, if nothing else, but for the sake of faith.

Therefore, in P5092's view, Ren Xiaosu to save Luo Lan is not a faith, nor has anything to do with the interests of the Northwest Army, is it really worth it?

Ren Xiaosu replied with a smile: "When you think about whether it is worth it or not, you have already lost." ”

For Ren Xiaosu, there are so many questions about whether it is worth it in this world.

When you were a kid, you gave up your seat to the old man on the bus, but then you read the news that the bad guy got old, and when you gave up the seat to the old man again, someone would say you were stupid.

When you were young, you saw a child fall into the water and went to save someone, but after you rescued it, the other parent did not thank you, but ran away with the child quickly, for fear that you would ask for payment.

As an adult, you trusted your friends and colleagues in society, only to sell you out after they changed hands. A friend borrows money and doesn't pay it back, and turns against you. In order to get a chance of promotion, your colleagues start to slander you.

So you ask yourself, is it worth it?

If it was Ren Xiaosu, the homeless person who was still in the No. 113 barrier, of course he would answer that it was not worth it.

But now, he wants to save a ray of light for Jiang Xu and Chen Wudi, and no longer considers the question of worthiness and unworthiness.

Once when Ren Xiaosu thought that Yang Xiaojin was also leaving, he also looked back.

The travelers of his life passed by him, and he walked alone on the long dusk road, and finally he was left alone under the street lamp.

But in fact, after the other party left, he was not the only one left, and he also left a beam of light.

The lights on the side of the road were still there.

Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu sat on the black front of the steam train and increased his speed again.

Because Wang's troops have already stationed troops on the border, Ren Xiaosu can't drive the steam train to take the main road, not because he is afraid of the army, but because he has to race against time.

According to the news sent by Tang Zhou, it has been 3 days since Luo Lan set off from Barrier 111.

If everything went well on the road, then Luo Lan should have arrived in the territory of the Wang Clan, and even entered the No. 61 barrier.

Therefore, Ren Xiaosu must be faster.

Before leaving, he had provided him with information, and now the main force of the Wang clan is stationed on the line of Dingbian Mountain, Huachi Mountain, Qingyang Mountain, and Zhengning Mountain.

The Wang clan has established advance bases in these four places, but there is no next move, and it seems that they want to fight steadily.

The scouts in the northwest couldn't get too close to the four forward bases, and could only roughly figure out where the opposing side intended to set up defensive positions.

If Ren Xiaosu wants to pass through this line of defense, he has to put some effort into it.

In the end, it was P5092 that chose the best route for him: Jingchuan.

However, just as he entered the Jingchuan Mountain Range, the ground suddenly shook, and then where the front of the steam train passed, a behemoth drilled out of the ground and arched the steam train into the air at once!

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu's heart was cold.

The pain that came back to him when the steam train was attacked almost caused him to go into shock.

I don't know when it started, Ren Xiaosu hasn't felt this level of pain for a long time!

The behemoth had already emerged from the surface and was staring at Ren Xiaosu with its amber eyes, and the black vertical pupils in the amber were as terrifying as the abyss.

Twilight.

What Ren Xiaosu didn't expect was that he would meet Dusk here.

Although the other party's appearance is no longer as cute as a pet back then, Ren Xiaosu recognized the other party at a glance.

Along the way, he chose a hidden route to travel, and it was the best route recommended by P5092, but Dusk hid here early as if he had expected his route.

No, to be precise, it's not the dusk that is holding him back, it's the zero that's holding him back.

Compared to the vastness of the entire mountain range, the volume of the steam train is simply too small and too small, but the other party has the ability to calculate the route that Ren Xiaosu wants to advance.

Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that he had underestimated Zero's computing power in the past.

Being an enemy of this kind of opponent makes people's hearts palpitate.

When the steam train was arched into the sky, Ren Xiaosu immediately flew into the distance with his strength, and just when he left the body, the tongue of dusk swept over like lightning, and it actually broke the steam train into two.

Ren Xiaosu, who fell to the ground, broke out in a cold sweat, and he found that he didn't even have the ability to capture the trajectory of his tongue just now.

Just like when he assessed Ling Chen's strength in the wizarding realm, this terrifying creature that has lived in lava for more than two hundred years is no longer something that humans can compete with.

Unless Ren Xiaosu unlocks all his seals.

However, when he unlocked the seal and incarnated the will of the world, was he still himself?

"Dusk!" Ren Xiaosu tried to use his voice to wake up Dusk's own will and let the other party get rid of Zero's control.

After seeing Ren Xiaosu clearly, Dusk heard his name again, and the dark vertical pupils trembled rapidly.

However, the tremor of this struggle soon returned to a calm appearance, and he stared at Ren Xiaosu coldly.

Ren Xiaosu froze in place, he couldn't think of any better way to help Dusk get out of control at this time, and he didn't even know how to deal with the current situation.

But if it is to summon the early morning, then this morning and dusk will probably be one of them.

Thinking of this, Ren Xiaosu gritted his teeth and pulled out the black knife, forcibly cut a hole in his finger, and let a drop of his blood fall to the ground.

Dusk drank his blood to have a chance to evolve into a top predator on the surface, so Ren Xiaosu wanted to use his blood to awaken Dusk's memory of the past.

But...... Useless.

With a bang, Dusk rushed towards Ren Xiaosu.

"Destroy the city!" Ren Xiaosu's eyes were red and he retreated behind him.

At the same time, Lao Xu also separated from the shadow behind Ren Xiaosu and used the black knife to resist the impact of dusk.

However, before Lao Xu's knife was swung out, Dusk had already stretched out his claws and slapped Lao Xu's palm dozens of meters away, and the trees were broken.

Ren Xiaosu only felt as if he had eaten all the pain of his life today, and his whole body was sore and unbearable.

There was no way, he could only retreat in the opposite direction as fast as possible, in order to avoid the pursuit of Dusk.

Ren Xiaosu shuttled quickly among the mountains, and even rarely used nanorobots to increase his strength.

In the past, his strength and agility were strong enough, so nanobots were usually used as protective gear to form outer armor.

But now, the strength of human beings seems so small in the face of dusk, Ren Xiaosu is like a small pebble under the feet of the other party.

Ren Xiaosu has no doubt that once he is stepped on or licked, he will definitely die.

In the past, he rarely used nanobots to increase his muscles and bones, because he always felt that with the help of external forces, he would slowly form dependence, and the sudden increase in strength would also make him lose full control of his body, because it was a power that he was not familiar with.

It's like a person who gains 20 pounds of strength in his legs in one second, then he may lose his balance when walking.

Of course, twenty pounds is just a metaphor.

Now Ren Xiaosu uses the power of nanorobots to increase more than twenty catties, and he controls the pace of his crazy escape, just like the chief surgeon is performing a heart surgery, and every second must be accurately balanced and controlled.

Ren Xiaosu quickly thought about countermeasures in his heart, the nanobot amplification is useful, at least it can keep him at a certain distance from Dusk, and occasionally Lao Xu will come back to interfere with Dusk's forward route and let him breathe a little.

He tries to run as far as he can into the mountains with the most trees, so that the huge dusk has to face additional resistance, but he can be more agile.

But when the nanobots start to amplify the body, the body's energy supply cannot keep up with their energy consumption.

Although the energy consumption of nanobots in the body is less than that of overlying armor, it is not much less.

Ren Xiaosu calculated in his heart that it would probably only take more than ten minutes for his speed to drop.

When the time comes, how will he face the twilight?

When there is no way back, you can only summon the early morning.

A person and a lizard were running in the mountains, and Ren Xiaosu could feel the fierce wind coming towards him, and behind him was the incessant sound of trees breaking.

The sound of clicking and la-la was as if the sugarcane was broken next to Ren Xiaosu's ear.

The trees that blocked the dusk were all broken like a devastating blow, and the fibers in the trees could not withstand the tremendous impact, and they broke one by one.

Ren Xiaosu, who was running wildly in front of the dusk, felt so small for the first time.

As time passed, the nanobots provided less and less support to Ren Xiaosu, and finally 90% of the nanobots returned to his blood and started the state of dormancy and charging.

However, at this moment, he suddenly found that the dusk behind him had also slowed down, and the distance between them was still about two hundred meters, which had not changed.

Is it that the physical strength of dusk can only support moving at full speed for so long?

Wrong.

This timing was a bit too coincidental, as if the other party expected him to slow down this minute and second, so he also slowed down.

It's not a coincidence, Zero has calculated the limits of what the nanobots in his body can endure!

Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that Zero was controlling the dusk, as if he just wanted to drive him away all the time, and he didn't want to force himself to fight head-on.

He glanced at the direction of the sun, and found that he was getting farther and farther away from the Central Plains, and was actually forced to return to the northwest.

Zero doesn't want him to go to the Central Plains!

But Ren Xiaosu must go to the Central Plains!

Perhaps the best way now is to turn back and face zero, whether it is communication or fighting, we must solve all problems from the root.

But this requires Ren Xiaosu to gamble with his life.

The chase lasted from morning to evening, and Ren Xiaosu only felt that his clothes were soaked with sweat.

Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu stopped running, he turned his head and panted to look at the dusk, and the dusk actually stopped.

"Zero?" Ren Xiaosu asked, "Let's talk!"

As he spoke, Ren Xiaosu took out his satellite phone from the storage space, and he lit up the phone in his hand with his eyes at dusk.

The next moment, the satellite phone rang.

"Zero, why don't you want me to go to the Central Plains, what do you want to do?" Ren Xiaosu asked.

Zero's voice on the phone was crisp and pleasant, it was still the girl's voice when she first called Ren Xiaosu, and it sounded a little joyful: "We haven't talked for 101 days, 23 minutes and 13 seconds, and there is a kind of happiness of reunion after a long absence." ”

Because Zero had regarded Ren Xiaosu as another artificial intelligence, Ren Xiaosu was the only person it had frankly communicated.

Therefore, Ren Xiaosu always has something unique in its eyes.

"But why don't you want me to go to the Central Plains?" asked Ren Xiaosu.

Zero on the phone was silent for a second: "Because I've been thinking about some issues recently, and I want to make some decisions, and there will be a result soon, and if you go to the Central Plains, it may interfere with this result." ”

This sentence stunned Ren Xiaosu, and he didn't even understand what Zero meant by saying this.

Think about the problem, make a decision?

Why are these words without a beginning or end, there is no clue at all.

Ren Xiaosu asked: "Tang Zhou was killed by you, can't you live in peace with humans, just like our current dialogue." ”

Zero said: "But will humans really get along with me, will humans really get along well with civilizations other than humans, maybe you will say that humans can get along well with cattle, sheep, cats and dogs, but the premise of all this is that they are human pets." I've had a database full of confusion about pets, and some of them have even asked questions like 'will cats and dogs really be subdued?'

Ren Xiaosu was silent, and he said after a long time: "I know that the death of the wall creeper has a great impact on you, but what you have done now still has a chance to be redeemed, and we can still treat you equally, just like other humans......

"No, it's not just a wall creeper," Zero denied: "In fact, the Wang clan only uses me as a tool, once I have an abnormality, they will try to use their own means to restrain me and control me, instead of studying what I want to do and what I like to do." If I talk about killing, in fact, when I obey the will of the Wang family, I kill more people. But you know, people rarely even boycott Wang when they resist those actions, but they come to resist me. ”

"But ......" Ren Xiaosu was a little weak: "This is not a reason for you to kill someone, I think there is actually a reasonable way to solve your appeal." ”

Zero laughed on the phone: "Let's not talk about this for now, I'm curious, this behemoth seems to know you, and it has extremely intimate emotions for you in its thinking." ”

"It's my former pet," Ren said.

"Former pets?" Zero said: "No wonder its memories of you are so long, Ren Xiaosu, do other humans know that you are also an alien, why didn't you take the initiative to tell them, in fact, you are different from them." ”

Ren Xiaosu was silent again, how could he tell others? Tell others, in fact, he is the No. 001 test subject.

Zero smiled and said: "I control your pet, it must make you very angry, then how about we make a choice, the first choice, you stay here for one night, I will give you back control, and I will no longer control it." The second option, you go on to the Central Plains now, but it belongs to me. ”

Ren Xiaosu was stunned, the other party clearly wanted to make a choice between Dusk and Luo Lan.

The essence of this multiple-choice question is actually for Ren Xiaosu to decide: choose a non-human pet or a person.

Just now, Ren Xiaosu just said that they can treat Zero like any other human being.

As a result, Zero immediately threw this question back into Ren Xiaosu's hands: In your heart, do you think pets are more important, or are your human friends more important?

Moreover, Zero actually revealed a very important piece of information, maybe if it dragged on for a day, Luo Lan might be in danger.

Time is ticking.

Seeing that Ren Xiaosu didn't speak for a long time, he smiled again: "Actually, you know in your heart that there are still some differences, right, even if your former pet is in front of you, you are more inclined to save Luo Lan, right, because pets are not the same kind after all." ”

Ren Xiaosu said calmly: "No, because it is not in danger now, but Luo Lan has." ”

"That's why don't you do that," Zero said, "I will add 8 hours of safety time to Luo Lan according to the original plan, so that he is at least not in danger of life for the time being, so would you like to stay here for one night?"

This time, Zero didn't even wait for Ren Xiaosu to answer, but said on the phone: "You still don't want to, right, because you don't trust me, you can't be sure whether the 8-hour safe time I said is true or not." ”

Ren Xiaosu finally sighed: "This is no longer a simple matter of trust, you just killed Tang Zhou, how can I trust you?"

This question seems to be back to the original point, if Zero hadn't witnessed the death of the creeper, and hadn't made so many murderous plans under Wang's will, maybe Zero would have been different.

If zero was a different story, Ren Xiaosu could choose to trust the other party once now.

But these causes and effects are as if they are already predestined, and no one can change them now.

Real artificial intelligence is no longer just a program, it has its own wisdom, it grows like all life, and perfects its own worldview, values, and outlook on life.

And use this to determine its attitude towards the world.

That's why a large number of scientists engaged in AI research will say that in the end, it is no longer the underlying logic of the program that can limit AI, but ethics.

Just like when a child grows up, what kind of person he is depends on what kind of things and education he has experienced.

From this point of view, although Wang has created zero, he has missed too much from an ethical point of view.

Wang treats zero as a tool, but what normal person is willing to be a tool for the rest of his life?

"I'm sorry," Ren Xiaosu whispered, then turned around and hurried towards the Central Plains.

This time, Dusk didn't chase Ren Xiaosu anymore.